A stellar mass black hole (BH) binary system consists of a BH with a mass function in range 5 – 100Msun with a companion star (all stellar species from dwarves to giants). Most of these binaries have ...

Black holes are born when massive stars 20 times our sun exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under the forces of gravity, which triggers a supernova, one of the brightest explosions in the ...

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers have demonstrated how black hole outbursts trigger a self-sustaining feeding process.

More information: Christian Corda et al, Universality of the thermodynamics of a quantum-mechanically radiating black hole departing from thermality, Physics Letters B (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j ...

The results support a model where outbursts from the black holes trigger hot gas to cool and form narrow filaments of warm gas. Turbulence in the gas also plays an important role in this ...